Coronavirus Act 2020

[F1 Required medical evidence for hospital order in respect of certain other detained persons in their absence N.I.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 10 Pt. 2 suspended (10.5.2021) by The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Suspension) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/98), arts. 1(1), 2 (with art. 3, Sch.)

11 N.I. A court may make an order under Article 57(5) (hospital order in respect of a detainee falling within Article 54(2)(a) in absence of detainee) if the court—

(a) is satisfied that complying with the requirement under Article 57(6) for the oral evidence of two RQIA practitioners is impractical or would involve undesirable delay, and

(b) is satisfied on the evidence of a single RQIA practitioner of the matters of which it would (but for this paragraph) have to be satisfied on the evidence of two practitioners as referred to in sub-paragraph (a),

and any other conditions for the making of the order are met.]

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 10 para. 11 in force at 2.4.2020 by S.R. 2020/58, art. 2(c)